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Flash Flood Warning 3, NWS Cleveland, OH

June 10, 2005Holmes County, Ohio

NWS Cleveland, OH issued this flash flood warning at Jun 10, 2005, 4:12 PM EDT for Holmes County, Ohio. It was in force for 3 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The outline as issued.

The facts

Issued: Jun 10, 2005, 4:12 PM EDT (20:12 UTC)
Expired: Jun 10, 2005, 7:15 PM EDT
In force: 3 hr
Issued by: NWS Cleveland, OH
Area: Counties, with a storm outline in the text

County Holmes County, OH

The radar

The Cleveland radar (KCLE), 95 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 20:14 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Pittsburgh, PA (KPIT), launched 12:00Z, 8.2 hours before the alert went out and 158 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 752 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -34 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 803 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 19 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 33 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 63 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WGUS51 KCLE 102012
FFWCLE
OHC075-102315-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
FLASH FLOOD WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
412 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN CLEVELAND HAS ISSUED A

* FLASH FLOOD WARNING FOR...
  CENTRAL HOLMES COUNTY IN NORTHEAST OHIO
  THIS INCLUDES THE CITY OF MILLERSBURG

* UNTIL 715 PM EDT

* AT 404 PM EDT...WEATHER SERVICE RADAR INDICATED FROM A THUNDERSTORM
  NEAR MILLERSBURG...MOVING NORTHEAST AT 5 MPH.

* OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
  BERLIN AND HOLMESVILLE.

EXCESSIVE RUNOFF FROM THESE STORMS WILL CAUSE FLASH FLOODING OF SMALL
CREEKS AND STREAMS...HIGHWAYS AND UNDERPASSES. ADDITIONALLY...COUNTRY
ROADS AND FARMLANDS ALONG THE BANKS OF CREEKS AND STREAMS AND OTHER
LOW LYING AREAS ARE SUBJECT TO FLASH FLOODING.

DO NOT DRIVE YOUR VEHICLE INTO AREAS WHERE THE WATER COVERS THE
ROADWAY. THE WATER DEPTH MAY BE TOO GREAT TO ALLOW YOUR CAR TO CROSS
SAFELY. VEHICLES CAUGHT IN RISING WATER SHOULD BE ABANDONED QUICKLY.
MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND.

LAT...LON 4056 8203 4043 8187 4064 8173 4063 8215

$$

1 follow-up statement

000 
WGUS71 KCLE 102251
FFSCLE

FLASH FLOOD STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLEVELAND OH
640 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

OHC075-102315-
HOLMES OH-
640 PM EDT FRI JUN 10 2005

...A FLASH FLOOD WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 715 PM EDT FOR CENTRAL 
HOLMES COUNTY...

AT 638 PM EDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS SHOWING 
SCATTERED SHOWERS...THE HEAVY RAIN HAS ENDED FOR THE TIME BEING. 
HIGH WATER ON ROADS AND STREAMS WILL CONTINUE TO SUBSIDE. MORE 
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS COULD DEVELOP LATER IN THE EVENING. PEOPLE 
WHO LIVE NEAR STREAMS AND CREEKS NEED TO BE READY FOR THE POTENTIAL 
FOR HIGH WATER.

LAT...LON 4056 8203 4043 8187 4064 8173 4063 8215

$$

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Cleveland, OH issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jun 9, 11:14 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		2 hr
Jun 10, 12:24 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Sandusky	63 min
Jun 10, 2:48 AM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lake	57 min
Jun 10, 3:24 AM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		66 min
Jun 10, 3:22 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Huron	38 min
Jun 10, 3:40 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Stark	53 min
Jun 10, 3:47 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Marion	3 hr
Jun 10, 4:04 PM EDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	CLE	Lorain	56 min
Jun 10, 4:06 PM EDT	Special Marine Warning	CLE		54 min
Jun 10, 4:42 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Ashtabula	3 hr
Jun 10, 5:04 PM EDT	Flash Flood Warning	CLE	Knox	3 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.